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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Infinity Science study: Networking, LAN, WAN, MAN, Topology, PSTN, VAN, ISDN, Extranet, Firewall.


NETWORKING


Computer networking relates to the communication between a group of two or more computer systems linked together.

The network of computer can be classified as

LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN):
It is a system in which computer can be inter-connected within a geographical spread over 1km. All the terminals are connected to the main computer called server.

WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN):
In a WAN the connected computer are much far from each other and are connected by telephone lines or radio webs. Such network may spread across countries.

METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK (MAN):
It is data network design for a town or a city. It is main purpose to share hardware and software resource among the various users e.g., a cable TV network.

NETWORK RELATED TERMS

TOPOLOGY:
A network topology in physical layout of the computers, cables other peripherals on network. E.g., Bus Topology, Tree Topology Mesh Topology, Ring Topology.

NETWORK INTERFACE CARD (NIC):
It is also called network adopter. It is hardware component that connect a computer to a computer network.

INTERNET:
It is a public or global network that connects computer systems across the world called internet.

INTRANET:
It is Private utilizing internet type tools, but available only within that organization.

EXTRANET:
It is an internet that can be partially accessed by authorized outside users, enabling to exchange information over the internet in a secure way called extranet.

PUBLIC SWITCH TELEPHONE NETWORK (PSTN):

It is a design for telephone, which required modem for data communication.

VALUE ADDED NETWORK (VAN):
It provides electronic data interchange (EID) facility. It subscribe like invoices, sale-purchase order.

INTEGRATED SERVICE DIGITAL NETWORK (ISDN):
It is used voice, video and data services It uses data transmission and it combined both circuit and packet switching.

FIREWALL:
It is combination of software and hardware based device permit or deny networks transmission based on a set of rules and is frequently used to protect network from unauthorized access while permitting legitimate communication to pass.

REPEATER:
It is used on a network to regenerate signals to be sent over long distance.

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